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American Fiction is a 2023 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson in his feature directorial debut.Based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, it follows a frustrated novelist-professor who writes an outlandish satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken for serious literature and published to high sales and critical praise.
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Dec 15, 2023 · Stagg R. Leigh is revered while Thelonious Ellison is stagnant, digging his nails into the sand to keep himself and his family from slipping out to sea. “American Fiction” is a thoughtful, although heavy-handed, film. The strength of its thesis successfully bonds the film together. And yet, there are more than a handful of moments, both ...
Mar 1, 2024 · American Fiction, being a movie within a movie, raises several questions for the story, specifically the ambiguity regarding what actually happened and what was just part of Monk's script. While the film may have seemed natural before this point, the ending denotes it as pandering to expectations: witty one-liners, absurdly campy film producers ...
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Mar 8, 2024 · 227. “American Fiction” is up for five Oscars on Sunday, including best picture, best adapted screenplay (by the movie’s director, Cord Jefferson, from Percival Everett’s novel “Erasure ...
AMERICAN FICTION is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated ...
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Dec 22, 2023 · American Fiction: Directed by Cord Jefferson. With Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander. A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain.
Feb 3, 2024 · Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press. The white editors in “American Fiction” — who believe that Monk’s ridiculously overblown book is an accurate account of urban Black life and ...
